In the VisualEditor, click the ≡ icon and click "Options" to get to the meta / "Page options" dialog.
Here, the "Apply changes" button is always enabled. It should only be enabled if the user has made any changes in the dialog.
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Change 470254 had a related patch set uploaded (by Flutterish; owner: Flutterish):
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] "Apply changes" is now only enabled after making changes
Change 470661 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński; owner: Bartosz Dziewoński):
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] ve.ui.MWMetaDialog: Wait for each page to set up (especially 'category')
Change 470254 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] ve.ui.MWMetaDialog: "Apply changes" is now only enabled after making changes
Change 470671 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński; owner: Bartosz Dziewoński):
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] ve.ui.MWMetaDialog: Consider category sortkeys when checking for changes
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/470661 fixes a pre-existing issue in the "Categories" page of the dialog that interferes with this new feature.
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/470671 makes this work when updating category sortkeys (I forgot about them when reviewing the original patch, sorry).
Change 470671 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] ve.ui.MWMetaDialog: Consider category sortkeys when checking for changes
Change 470661 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] ve.ui.MWMetaDialog: Wait for each page to set up (especially 'category')